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A German folk tale
Behold!
The portals of darkness are open, and the shadows of the dead hunt over the Earth...
"Back! Hold! Why dost thou scourge mankind with War, Plague, Famine?!"
"The Earth is mine!"
"Never will the Earth be thine: Man belongs to God!"
"Look below!"
"All things in heaven and on Earth
are wonderful!
But the greatest wonder
is man's freedom to choose
between good and evil!"
"Dost thou know Faust?"
"A knave like all others! He preaches good and does evil!
He seeks to turn base metal into gold!
Behold his greed!"
"A wager: I will wrest Faust's soul away from God!"
"If thou canst destroy what is divine
in Faust, the Earth is thine!"
"No man can resist evil! The bet is on!"
"The Plague! The Plague!"
The devastating pestilence raged:
in a few days half the town lay dying.
To find a cure for the Plague,
Faust spent day and night
in prayer with God.
And there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house without its dead.
"Lord God, bless this act of redemption!
Only you can alleviate our misery!"
"Help... help! My mother is dying!"